Pen and pencil holder.



V No. 820,908. PATENTED MAY 15, 1906 E. 0. BULB/IAN.

PEN AND PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9. was.

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{Inventor WWW 1m [I 0.3 u m u n ELVAI-I O. BULMAN, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

PEN AND PENCIL HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed January 9,1905. Serial No- 240,328.

T0 at whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELVAH O. BULMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen and Pencil Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pocket pen and pencil holders, and its objects are, first, to provide a practically indestructible pen and pencil holder of the kind described; second, to provide a pen and pencil holder that may be worn either in the pocket or on the outside of the garment with equal facility, and, third, to provide a pen and pencil holder With which one or several pencils may be carried, and each will be sup ported in receptacles independent of the others. I attain these objects by the device shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the holder with pen and pencils in place, and Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the same with the pencils, &o., cut off on the line w r of Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

This pen and pencil holder consists of a plain disk or plate A, which is provided with a pin D for securing it to the garment after the mannerof securing an ordinary brooch or ornamental dress-pin to a garment. This arrangement enables one to secure the holder either in position for the pens or pencils to project down into the pocket, if desired, or to pin the holder onto the outside surface of a garment, which I find to be a particularly des'irable feature, as the wearer frequently desires to carry the holder when he does not desire to wear a coat or vest.

The clamps that hold the pencils, &c., to place in the holder consist of a series of loops B, made from or in a narrow strip of thin sheet metal. This strip of metal after the loops have been formed is secured to the disk A at each end, as indicated at b b, in such a position that the lower portion of the loops will rest against the outer surface of the plate or disk A, but are not attached thereto, thus rendering it convenient to insert apen or pencil with equal facility, whether all of the other loops are full or empty, and the pencils, 860., will be held as securely in the one case as in the other. At 0 the pen or pencils are re resented as secured in the loops, and at C t e 1pencil is represented as just entering the oop.

.The object of a circular disk of a diameter equal to the length of the series of loops is to provide a base or support of sufficient surface to hold the holder to position, so that it will not tip or turn when inserting the pencils, &c. Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

In a pen and pencil holder,a thin disk, a pin pivoted to the back side of said disk, a a narrow, thin sheet of spring metal formed in a series of loops, flatwise, and fastened at each end to opposite edges of the disk with the loops free to move upon the face of the disk, substantially as, and for the purpose set forth.

Signed at Grand Rapids,Miclngan, J anuary 6, 1905.

ITHIEL J. CILLEY, PETER W. DECKER. 

